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(2) Sébastien-Antoine Slodtz
(b Paris, 1 Dec 1695; d Paris, 25 Dec 1754). Sculptor and designer, son of (1) Sébastien Slodtz. He was one of the originators of the ROCOCO style of ornamentation. From 1750 to 1754 he was Dessinateur de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi. Like his father he devoted much of his career to the Menus Plaisirs du Roi, producing numerous designs for furniture and fitments and above all for decorations for official celebrations and state funerals. The surviving drawings, which include one of a medallion of Louis XV (1738) and a design for a throne for the King (1740; both Paris, Bib. N.), demonstrate his great skill as a draughtsman. He frequently worked in collaboration with his brother (3) Paul-Ambroise, for example on church commissions, including the sculptural decoration of St Sulpice (1729–32), Paris, and the high altar of St Nicolas-du-Louvre (1734), Paris. They specialized in adapting the choirs of Gothic churches to suit mid-18th-century taste, notably at St Barthélémy, Paris (1736–40), the abbey church of Chaalis (1737–45), Sens Cathedral (1742), Auxerre Cathedral (1743) and St Merry (1745–54), Paris; only at St Merry and Chaalis do traces of this work survive. He was never a member of the Académie Royale.
Part of the Slodtz family
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